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 * __//Group Awesomeness (Irish Famine)//__**

**Irish Potato Famine Tragedy ** **Group Members: **

=History Lecture: =
 * Natalie De Leon
 * Amy Zuniga
 * Tom Delgadillo
 * Joey Flores

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====**__Music:__** There are many composers who wrote songs about the Famine. There was many composers to many of the different types of songs. Here are some composers and their songs that they wrote during the famine in Ireland. One of the famous songwriters and singers of that era was, Eamonn Mc Girr who wrote and sang the song "Praties They Grow Small" it was published by Atwill in 1844. An immigrant to the U.S., he was born in [|Derry], Northern Ireland. He first came to prominence in 1966 with a group of fellow Belfast school teachers: Gerry Burns, Finbar Carolan, and John Sullivan, known collectively as The Go Lucky Four, soared to the top of the Irish music charts with // [|Up Went Nelso]. //, maintaining the #1 spot for eight consecutive weeks. ====



Another great artist was Tom Paxton and he wrote the song "Don't Slay That Potato" Which was published in the early 20th century. is an [|American]  folk   singer and   singer-songwriter   who has been writing, performing and recording music for over forty years. In 2009, Paxton received a  Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.



LITERATURE: Patrick Kavanagh (21 October 1904 – 30 November 1967) was an Irish poet and novelist. One of his best known works includes the poem, //The Great Hunger.// The Great hunger Clay is the word and clay is the flesh Where the potato-gatherers like mechanised scarecrows move Along the side-fall of the hill - Maguire and his men. If we watch them an hour is there anything we can prove Of life as it is broken-backed over the Book Of Death? Here crows gabble over worms and frogs And the gulls like old newspapers are blown clear of the hedges, luckily. Is there some light of imagination in these wet clods? Or why do we stand here shivering? Which of these men Loved the light and the queen Too long virgin? Yesterday was summer.

"There is a value in remembering that we too once knew what it was to starve, to face disease, or to arrive in strange land as refugees, hungry, ragged and speaking a foreign language. It is this memory that shapes how we deal with others, and how we see Irelands place in the world today. If a new edition of the hungry voice helps to preserve or consolidate that memory in some small way, it is worth republishing; in the end, the voices that it contains are still hungry to be heard." Chris morash, December 18, 2008

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